How can I test my campaign?

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How can I test my campaign?

There are two ways to test a campaign. You can modify your original campaign to enroll only a small group of test members and configure send times to accommodate your testing schedule, or you can can create a separate “test campaign” designed specifically for testing purposes.

The following are some tips/suggestions for testing various campaign types.

Campaigns that send emails with wait time in between

Welcome Campaigns

Call to Action Campaigns

Event Promotion

Fundraising

Sample Campaign

Modify Existing Campaign

Create Test Campaign

Send 1st emailwait 14 days

Send 2nd email

wait 14 days

Send 3rd email

wait 14 days

Send final email

Add only test members to the campaign (best accomplished by creating a group of test members and use the “in a group” method for campaign enrollment)
Modify the campaign and reduce the time interval between each send to several hours
Deploy the campaign
Once testing is completed go back and modify time intervals and modify campaign enrolment and re-deploy the campaign

Create a test campaign
Add only test members to the campaign (best accomplished by creating a group of test members and use the “in a group” method for campaign enrollment)
Set the time interval between each send to several hours

Date based campaigns that send email

Birthdays and anniversaries

Membership and subscription renewal

Date triggered notices

These campaigns are somewhat more challenging because you will have to create campaign recipients with the specific dates to match the expected send actions.

Sample Campaign

Modify Existing Campaign

Create Test Campaign

Send 1st email 90 days prior to date in a custom field (say expiration date)
Send 2nd email 30 days prior to date in custom field
Send 3rd email 10 after date in custom field

Add only test members to the campaign (best accomplished by creating a group of test members and use the “in a group” method for campaign enrollment)
For each test recipient modify the dates in the custom field to generate the emails according to your desired test schedule.
Once testing is completed go back and modify the dates in the custom fields and modify campaign enrolment and re-deploy the campaign

Add only test members to the campaign (best accomplished by creating a group of test members and use the “in a group” method for campaign enrollment)
For each test recipient modify the dates in the custom field to generate the emails according to your desired test schedule.

Scoring and Segmentation campaigns

Lead scoring

Engagement

Segmentation

Sample Campaign

Modify Existing Campaign

Create Test Campaign

If a recipient opens any email give them 5 points
If a recipient clicks any link give them 10 points

Add only test members to the campaign (best accomplished by creating a group of test members and use the “in a group” method for campaign enrollment)
Send emails to the test members and interact with these emails to generate the scoring results.
Once testing is completed go back and modify campaign enrolment and re-deploy the campaign

Add only test members to the campaign (best accomplished by creating a group of test members and use the “in a group” method for campaign enrollment)
Send emails to the test members and interact with these emails to generate the scoring results.